Brooks Alumni Society President

Brooks Alumni Society President; Jim Frye Chosen To Head Council

Booker Brooks Frye Ragland

In a spirited three-cornered race that went right down to the wire, Edwin B. Brooks, Jr., '43, was elected president of the University of Richmond Alumni Society.

Brooks, president of the Security Federal Savings and Loan Association of Richmond, was recently elected president of the Virginia Savings and Loan League.

He outpolled George W. Sadler, '43, president of the University's Parents Organizavice president and a member of the Society's executive committee.

He outpolled George W. Sadler, '43, president of the University's Parents Organization, and R. Clifton Long, '46, co-chairman with Mrs. Long in planning the AlumniAlumnae weekend.

James E. Frye Jr., '53, of Richmond, Community Relations Director for Philip Morris, was chosen president of the Alumni Council, the fund raising arm of the Society, at a meeting at which good progress was reported toward the Alumni Fund goal of $100,000.

At: the annual breakfast of the Business School Association on Alumni Day, Graham K. Ragland, '63, an accountant for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia, was elected president.

Earlier, on Law Day, R. E. Booker, '129, a former president of the Alumni Society, was elected president of the Law School Association. J. Vaughan Gary, '115, for many years Representative of Virginia's Third District in the national Congress, was the principal Law Day speaker.

University alumni in another notable action elected Walter P. Lysaght, '56, former All-Southern Conference basketball star, as an alumni representative on the Athletic Council.

Alumni Society officers, with Brooks, are T. Jack Gary, '31, of Washington and Charles G. Motley, '45, and G. Thomas Taylor, '36, both of Richmond, vice presidents; John M. Bareford, '40, of Saluda was chosen secretary, and R. W. Nuckols, '21, of Richmond, and the Rev. Aubrey J. Rosser, '50, of Roanoke, were elected to the executive committee.

Serving with President Frye on the Alumni Council are Howard P. Falls, '33, of Richmond, first vice president; Rawley F. Daniel, '40, of Richmond, second vice president; Joseph E. Nettles, '30, secretary, and Cecil F. Jones, '43, treasurer. Executive committee members are G. Fred Cook, '25; Ralph P. Moore, '38; John W. Edmonds III, '53; A. E. Dick Howard, '54; Edmund G. Harrison, '56, and the retiring president, Carle E. Davis, '54.

Law School alumni elected Judge Henry D. Garnett, '146, of Newport News, vice president. To the board of directors they elected Frank D. Harns, 'L54, South Hill, and G. Thomas Taylor, '139 and John W. Edmonds, III, '156, both of Richmond.

Business School alumni elected Clyde H. Bellamy Jr., '56, and William E. Layne Jr., '59, vice presidents; B. Roland Freasier Jr., '61, secretary, and Ellis M. Dunkum, '59, treasurer. To the board of directors they elected Roy S. Cayton, '52; Robert S. Jepson Jr., '64; Philip R. Johnson, '54; Russell T. Mann Jr., '60, and Russell G. Warren, '64.

Pitt

( Continued from page 7) Mary Indians at Williamsburg, 3 to 0, Coach Pitt was extended the offer by Athletic Director Lester Hooker, Jr., to become Head Basketball Coach at William and Mary for the season of 1968. I ask you, what greater compliment can be paid anyone than this?

It might be said that his entire life has been coaching, teaching, and counseling boys. As many of you know, after nine months at the University of Richmond he journeys up to the Alleghany Mountains, on the Maury River, where he directs Camp Virginia, one of the truly great boys camps in our section of the country.

He has gained a wide reputation as an after dinner speaker, and is in constant ( 16] demand by civic, religious, high school or college groups. On Sundays he teaches a class of college-age boys at First Baptist Church where he serves as a member of the Board of Deacons. "The Middle Man" in three generations of Pitts at the University of Richmond, Mac Pitt is the son of the late Dr. R. H. Pitt, who for many years was editor of the Religious Herald, the Baptist publication for Virginia. His three children all hold degrees from the University of Richmond. His son, Mac Pitt, Jr., former All-State performer here in basketball, and a letterman in baseball and football, is Headmaster of the Collegiate Schools and is performing an outstanding job in this capacity. His wife, Louise, has been loyal and devoted and at his side constantly through these years.

And so, Dr. Modlin, on behalf of the Alumni of the University of Richmond, I present to you as President of our University, this portrait of Malcolm Upshur Pitt, with the knowledge that although retiring as Director of Athletics, he will serve this University in many useful capacities, for years to come.

Confessions

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Clintwood first of all, and then work up from the bottom. I bought the local newspaper and looked about for something to reform. The cows were grazing peacefully and serenely on the courthouse green and the streets, and with glee I fell upon my task of removing these bovine marauders to greener pastures.

After some six or eight months of intensive campaigning, I succeeded in calling an election on the cow question, and the cows were defeated by a majority of eleven votes. But the town officials forgot to inform the cows of this momentous decision, and, as I write this, an enterprising Jersey is standing before my office window, derisively ringing her bell, and placidly consuming a pasteboard box.

So, I am through with reforming. As far as I am concerned the world can chase itself around and around. As for me, I shall do my daily stint of editing my paper, writing wild and woolly yarns for the pulp magazines, and spending the rest of the time afield and astream with rod and gun, seeking the elusive bass and equally shy squirrel and quail.

With every best wish for you and all the Alumni of U. of R., I am,

Yours in complete disillusionment, H. M. "Joy" SUTHERLAND